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If she’s his wife, Tanome, I suspect she’s been out there and injured since the morning when the herd of wild boars upset the camp they’re at now. The boars are probably what caused her that wound, be it from a tusk or a push into some jagged branch.

So… We find out if Angora has healing powers?

HAHA! I just figured out what Pinter is looking at. Etan is pouring ALCOHOL onto that rag! lulz

Yeah, been too long since I checked the Wiki and older comic pages to know if the northern Santri religion was solely theirs, and it’s probably more cultural dislikes which make mixed marriages uncommon. I don’t remember him being biracial. Just an expatriot of Santri lands and he considered Pinter a fellow Santri.

Makes sense why the two of them decided to flee South though. No use going North with her Citern heritage and he’d likely be shunned heavily for his own.

Everyone is still distinctly un-captured, non-dead and still together. I definitely approve. Except for the spider, that is. I mean… it’s fiiiiine… but there are none right here around me right…? RIGHT?!? *grabs keyboard defensively*

At least she appears to be covered by a cloak or blanket except for the injury. Perhaps there’s some artistic choice at work in having Etan in shadow, turned away from the light. I can’t make sense of the injury either – looks like a hole but I dunno what created the shape.

The active bleeding has probably clotted off by now, so we’re left with exposed flesh.

It looks like a deep gouge/tear sort of wound. Some flesh appears to be hanging off a bit (that rounded section of skin in the center of the injury) and the wound is in a ragged shape instead of a neat slice. The boars mentioned in the beginning of this chapter would be good suspects for that sort of injury, but we’ll see.

The wound apparently missed major arteries, but Tanome is still in danger. Muggy, hot jungles full of little critters are not conducive to the healing of open wounds… but at least it doesn’t look like her intestinal tract was perforated.

I had forgotten about the boars. I’m too squeamish to search for images of injuries but it was the crescent-like shape that was throwing me off. I had figured a swipe by an animal would leave a longer, straighter gash but having never been gored by a boar, I can’t say.